A 5-Bit 1.25-GS/s 4x-Capacitive-Folding Flash ADC in 65-nm CMOS

This paper presents a 5-bit 1.25-GS/s folding flash ADC. The prototype achieves a folding factor of four with a capacitive folding technique that only consumes dynamic power. Incorporated with various calibration schemes, folding errors and the comparator's threshold inaccuracies are corrected, thus allowing a low input capacitance of 80 fF. The design is fabricated using 65-nm digital CMOS technology and occupies 0.007 mm2. The maximum DNL and INL post calibration are 0.67 and 0.47 LSB, respectively. Measurement results show that the ADC can achieve 1.25 GS/s at 1-V supply with a total power consumption of 595 μW. In addition, it exhibits a mean ENOB of 4.8b at dc among ten chips, which yields an FoM of 17 fJ/conversion-step.